2025 ACC Swimming and Diving Championships
Friday, the fourth day of the 2025 ACC Championships, noticed numerous important occasion selections amongst prime names within the meet. That features massive selections from the 2 groups main the meet: the Virginia ladies and the Cal males.
Virginia Girls
Alex Walsh had a option to make between swimming the 200 fly because the #2 seed and the 100 breaststroke because the #1 seed. She in the end opted for the previous, reverting to her extra conventional occasions despite swimming a nation-leading 56.85 two weeks in the past.
The Fifth-year Walsh is the defending ACC Champion within the occasion, although she didn’t swim it at her freshman, sophomore, or junior ACC Championships. Likewise, she was the NCAA Champion within the occasion as a sophomore and completed 2nd at NCAAs as a junior, however skipped the occasion in favor of the 200 breast finally yr’s NCAA Championship as a senior.
The four-time defending NCAA Champion Virginia ladies are inclined to tinker with their lineups at ACCs, so these occasion selections don’t essentially inform us a lot about her plans for Federal Method in March.
That leaves Duke’s Kaelyn Gridley (58.14) as the highest seed. Stanford’s Lucy Bell (#5 seed) and Virginia’s Aimee Canny (58.47) have each scratched the occasion as properly.
An identical story is true for redshirt sophomore Claire Curzan, a switch from Stanford. She received’t have any particular person races on Friday after dropping the 100 again, although she might swim a leg of Virginia’s 400 medley relay within the night. She was the #2 seed behind her teammate Gretchen Walsh, the quickest 100 yard backstroker in historical past.
Curzan was third within the 50 free (21.26) and 2nd within the 100 fly (49.02) earlier within the meet: each new lifetime bests. She is going to now have a alternative between the 200 again (#1 seed) and 100 free (#4 seed) on Saturday to wrap up her meet.
Cal Males
The Cal Golden Bears, which is among the many greatest males’s backstroke applications on this planet, had the highest two seeds coming into the meet within the 100 backstroke: Gabriel Jett (44.54) and Evan Petty (44.97).
Jett is opting to swim the 200 fly as a substitute, the place he’s the #2 seed (1:40.06) behind Stanford’s Andrei Minakov (1:40.01).
Jett was 2nd within the 500 free (4:10.27), however was surprisingly absent from the 200 free on Thursday (#5 seed). That suggests that he’ll wrap his meet with the 200 again on Saturday, the place his 1:38.31 makes him the highest seed forward of his teammate Destin Lasco (1:39.21), although Lasco is the NCAA Document holder.
Jett has at all times been a 200 butterflier, however this season has completed a variety of work on underwaters – and his backstroke begin – which resulted in a 1.3 second drop within the 100 again mid-season.
Petty would have been the second seed in Jett’s absence, however he’s not swimming the 100 again both, nor some other particular person occasion on Friday. He scratched the 50 free earlier within the meet, has not raced but, and has just one remaining entry, implying that there was greater than a ‘greatest occasion’ alternative being made right here. His final entry is the 100 free on Saturday.
Their absence leaves Virginia Tech Fifth yr Youssef Ramadan as the highest seed with a season better of 45.07.
Different Excessive Seed Scratches
- NC State freshman Leah Shackley will skip the 200 fly, the place she’s the #7 seed, versus the 100 again, the place she’s the #4 seed (50.22). She really promotes to #3 seed after the Curzan scratch. It’s very attainable that Shackley swims each races on the NCAA Championships, the place they fall on totally different days.
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